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=== Philanthropy === Bernstein funded a variety of fellowships, funds, and scholarships including ones at the [[Tanglewood Music Center]], [[Jacobs School of Music]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Endowments & Scholarships: Leonard Bernstein Scholarship Fund|url=https://music.indiana.edu/giving/scholarships/scholarships-bernstein.html |access-date=September 29, 2023|publisher=[[Jacobs School of Music]]}}</ref> [[Brandeis University]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leonard Bernstein Fellowship |url=https://www.brandeis.edu/admissions/affordability/scholarships-fellowships/bernstein.html |access-date=September 29, 2023 |website=brandeis.edu |language=en}}</ref> and the [[ASCAP Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The ASCAP Foundation Leonard Bernstein Award |url=https://www.ascapfoundation.org/ascapfoundation/programs/awards/leonard-bernstein-award |access-date=September 29, 2023}}</ref> Several of these funds were named for his late wife Felicia Montealegre, including scholarships at the [[Juilliard School]], [[Columbia University School of the Arts]], [[New York University Tisch School of the Arts]],<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Urquhart|first=Craig|title=The Quiet Legacy|pages=1, 5|magazine=Prelude, Fugue & Riffs|url=https://www.leonardbernstein.com/uploads/pages/files/PFR_1996_Autumn.pdf|access-date=September 29, 2023}}</ref> and the Felicia Montealegre Bernstein Fund of [[Amnesty International USA]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Leonard Bernstein and Amnesty International|author=John G. Healey|year=1992|url=https://leonardbernstein.com/about/humanitarian/human-rights-activist |access-date=September 29, 2023 |website=leonardbernstein.com}}</ref> Bernstein had a lifelong interest in integrating the arts into general education. When he won the Japan Art Association's [[Praemium Imperiale]] award in 1990,<ref>{{cite web | title=Temple Emanuel | url=http://www.emanuelnyc.org/composer.php?composer_id=28 | access-date=October 12, 2011 | archive-date=November 25, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125145523/http://www.emanuelnyc.org/composer.php?composer_id=28 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Bernstein used the $100,000 prize money to initiate a project in Nashville, Tennessee that would eventually lead to the current nationwide teaching model known as [[Artful Learning]].<ref>{{Cite news| last=Harrison | first=Eric | title=The maestro's legacy reverberates in Nashville : Leonard Bernstein's dream of creating a center that integrates the arts and the classroom is in full swing|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=October 11, 2011 | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-08-09-mn-22033-story.html | date=August 9, 1993}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexander-bernstein/leonard-bernsteins-artsba_b_3427779.html |title=Leonard Bernstein's Arts-Based Education Revolution |website=[[HuffPost]] |date=June 12, 2013 |access-date=June 12, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Artful Learning Model |url=http://www.leonardbernstein.com/artful_learning.htm |publisher=The Leonard Bernstein Center |access-date=February 7, 2015}}</ref>
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